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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2013

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...

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Sustaining Urban Growth through Innovative Capacity : Beijing and Shanghai in Comparison

Jici, Wang; Xin, Tong - 2012

The authors examine the diverse prospects of innovative sectors in Beijing and Shanghai using available indicators and data collected for this study through surveys. Beijing is the first choice for companies locating in China, but foreign employees prefer Shanghai for living convenience and...

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Introducing Behavioral Change in Transportation into Energy/Economy/Environment Models

Schafer, Andreas - 2013

Transportation is vital to economic and social development, but at the same time generates undesired consequences on local, regional, and global scales. One of the largest challenges is the mitigation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, to which this sector already contributes...

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Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space

Beyer, Robert C.M; Hu, Yingyao; Yao, Jiaxiong - 2022

This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The elasticity is 1.55 for emerging markets...

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The Golden Quadrilateral Highway Project and Urban/Rural Manufacturing in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - 2013

increased urbanization of the unorganized sector. …

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What Makes Cities Healthy?

Yusuf, Shahid; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Ha, Wei - 2012

The benefits of good health to individuals and to society are strongly positive and improving the health of the poor is a key Millennium Development Goal. A typical health strategy advocated by some is increased public spending on health targeted to favor the poor and backed by foreign...

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Is India???s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - 2013

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure has not. The results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

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Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits : Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India's Informal Sector

Ghani, Ejaz; Kanbur, Ravi; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2013

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … urbanized areas; (ii) This "urbanization gradient" also exists separately for the creation of female owned enterprises and male …

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Ahmedabad : More but Different Government for ???Slum Free??? and Livable Cities

Clarke Annez, Patricia; Bertaud, Alain; Bertaud, Marie-Agnes - 2013

Ahmedabad region and town planning schemes shows how the system of housing supply has evolved. These analyses are used to assess …

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Ecosystem Services and Green Growth

Vincent, Jeffrey R. - 2013

"Ecosystem services" has become a catch-phrase for the complex connections between the natural environment and human well-being. This paper considers the impact of changes in the supply of ecosystem services, and programs to increase their supply, on near-term growth of gross domestic product....

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